Baruj Benacerraf, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1980 for medicine for breakthroughs in immunology, and later headed Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, died Aug. 2 at 90.
The new U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, said President Obama hopes to visit the country.
The Knesset is considering a bill that will officially recognize Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland of the Jewish people.
Several former German ambassadors to Israel applauded Chancellor Angela Merkel\’s refusal to endorse the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.
The leader of an alleged cult in Jerusalem that is suspected of severely abusing women and children was indicted.
A new Modern Orthodox day school is opening in Baltimore three months after another shut down.
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